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GREAT Flexi Cashback: how it works

GREAT Flexi Cashback is a Great Eastern participating endowment. You pay premiums for 10, 15 or 20 years, it pays a guaranteed 4.30% of the basic sum assured every year from the end of year 2, and it matures 5 years after your last premium with a lump sum plus any bonuses.

Checked against Great Eastern's product page on 16 October 2026. Your policy schedule and benefit illustration set out your own terms and prevail over this page.

Key facts

The plan as Great Eastern sells it today.

Insurer
Great Eastern Life
Kind of plan
Regular premium endowment that pays cash every year
Participating?
Yes: it shares in Great Eastern's participating fund through bonuses, which are not guaranteed
Premiums
Regular, for 10, 15 or 20 years
Policy term
15, 20 or 25 years: always 5 years longer than the premiums
Yearly payout
4.30% of the basic sum assured, at the end of each policy year from year 2 until the year before maturity
At maturity
The guaranteed surrender value for the final policy year, plus any bonuses
On death, total and permanent disability or terminal illness
The higher of 105% of the premiums paid or 101% of the guaranteed surrender value, plus any bonus, less any debt on the policy
Medical check
None: issued on a guaranteed basis without medical underwriting, though financial underwriting still applies
Status
On sale on 16 October 2026

How the money flows, year by year

Pick the version on your policy schedule. "15-Pay 20" means 15 years of premiums in a plan that lasts 20 years.

You pay premiums
Yearly payout of 4.30%
Maturity lump sum
Policy year

You pay premiums for 15 years. From the end of year 2 to the end of year 19, Great Eastern pays 4.30% of the basic sum assured each year: 18 payouts, worth 77.4% of the basic sum assured in total, all guaranteed. At the end of year 20 the plan matures and pays the final year's guaranteed surrender value plus any bonuses.

Each yearly payoutS$2,150
All 18 payouts togetherS$38,700

The basic sum assured is printed on your policy schedule. These are the guaranteed payouts only: they leave out bonuses, interest on payouts left with Great Eastern, and anything already withdrawn or borrowed.

What is guaranteed and what isn't

The guaranteed parts are fixed in your contract. The rest depends on how Great Eastern's participating fund performs.

Guaranteed

  • The yearly payout of 4.30% of the basic sum assured
  • The guaranteed surrender value paid at maturity
  • The minimum death benefit: 105% of premiums paid or 101% of the guaranteed surrender value, whichever is higher

Not guaranteed

  • Bonuses, at maturity and on a claim
  • Interest on payouts you leave with Great Eastern, which can change without notice
  • The illustrated totals in your benefit illustration

Great Eastern illustrates the plan at two assumed investment returns, 4.25% and 3.00% a year. In its own example at the lower 3.00% rate, total benefits come to about 1.15 times the premiums paid.

Taking the payouts or leaving them in

Each year you choose: take the payout as cash, or leave it with Great Eastern to earn interest. The interest rate is set by Great Eastern, is not guaranteed and can change without notice.

Great Eastern's illustration assumes 3.00% a year on payouts left in when the fund earns 4.25%, and 1.50% a year when it earns 3.00%.

If you are thinking of ending the policy, ask Great Eastern for a statement that shows the surrender value and any payouts you have left in, as separate figures.

If you stop early

From Great Eastern's product page. Your policy contract sets out the exact rules for your policy.

Surrendering

You can surrender in full or in part at any time. After the 14-day free-look period you may get back less than you paid, and in the early years the surrender value may be nothing at all.

Missing premiums

There is a 30-day grace period. After that, if the policy has enough net surrender value, an automatic premium loan pays the premium for you; if not, the policy may lapse.

Reinstating

A policy that lapsed without enough surrender value may be reinstated within 6 months, on Great Eastern's usual conditions.

If you no longer want your GREAT Flexi Cashback

Compare every route before you decide. Surrendering can't be undone.

Keep it

The guaranteed payouts and maturity value only arrive if the policy stays in force. If cash is tight, a policy loan may bridge the gap. Policy loan or surrender

Surrender it

Great Eastern pays the surrender value and the policy ends. How to surrender a Great Eastern policy

Sell it to us

We usually buy GREAT Flexi Cashback policies paid in cash once about a third of the term has passed. If our offer beats the surrender value, you see both figures in writing before you decide. Check my policy

GREAT Flexi Cashback questions

When does GREAT Flexi Cashback start paying?

At the end of the second policy year, then every year until the year before the plan matures.

Is the 4.30% yearly payout guaranteed?

Yes. The 4.30% of the basic sum assured is guaranteed as long as the policy is in force. Bonuses, and interest on payouts left with Great Eastern, are not.

Is 4.30% my yearly return?

No. It is 4.30% of the basic sum assured, not of the premiums you pay, so it doesn't tell you the plan's return on its own. Your benefit illustration shows the illustrated yield.

My policy pays a different rate. Why?

Plans are relaunched with new rates. Seedly lists an earlier version paying 6% of the insured amount a year. Your policy schedule shows the rate on your policy.

Can I surrender GREAT Flexi Cashback early?

Yes, at any time, in full or in part. In the early years you may get back less than you paid. How to surrender a Great Eastern policy

Do I need a medical check-up to buy it?

No. Great Eastern issues it on a guaranteed basis without medical underwriting, though it still checks that the premium suits your finances.

Sources

Thinking of ending your GREAT Flexi Cashback?

Check whether we would buy it before you surrender. No NRIC, no obligation.

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